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i attended the London Olympics and have never been more disappointed in an international sporting event. Never again. Decided at that time that Rio was off my list.

i am disappointed Bitters because I think you would be a great asset to the tour and a source of great interest to the Spaniards and in particular the Senoritas. However, it will at least mean that you cannot be expelled from the country for indiscriminate acts. .

Yep you don't miss a thing Bub

For obvious reasons I prefer not to disclose my age. I value my private life and therefore some things are best left...well, private. Also, I find others stereotype you once that know your age. You know the comment or inference that someone is obviously young, or middle aged or an old fuddy duddy. Just like my novels, I like readers to sense the vitality of youth but also sense the ever present possibility of loss and indeed death. There are many wise young people and many older people who are unfamiliar with the the term. I like decency, courtesy and respect. I like conversation without personal insult or attack. I despise egotists and boasters. That may make me seem old but l know many young people who share those values just as I know many middle aged and older folks who don't. So for me age is unimportant. However, attitude is what counts. It is important to understand and learn from history whilst living in the present and giving thought to the future. The MFC represents those things. We have a wonderful history that is about success and failure. We now have a club that is beginning to build on our past success having learnt from our past failures, and a club that is building a future that my children and my children's children will be proud of. I may be old but I feel young and contrary to rumours , not yet dead.

Earl seems to have completely ditched Spain with his middle east suicide tour. I had great respect for Earl before reading his madness and desire for a cheap but deadly quick buck as deadly as a land mine. Forget it, I am planning my own tour of the bullfights and spanish bars. Let me know if you want to join the tour of sensory pleasures as against a final journey! Tour numbers are very limited and applicants will have to pass my own suitability test, which mainly deals with "lifestyle issues."

Hilarious Redleg. You have a very very dry sense of humour.

Hare Krishna Emerald. I recommend you purchase a full set of the "Srimad Bhagavatam" translated into English by His Divine Grace A.C, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON or the International Society of Krishna Consciousness. These volumes provide all the answers to life's questions (excluding the date of our next premiership flag), and will keep you reading for the rest of your life indeed eternity. I can guide you along the way if you wish. If you want a flavour of these works without the expense of purchasing all volumes, I recommend a read of the "Mahabharata" which is a revered text with profound spiritual themes and an enthralling narrative culminating in an apocalyptic war. As you know, I do not support organized religion, however, I think that the only answer to the age of Kali Yuga lies in matters of the soul. However, this involves the destruction of this current world as we know it. This includes the destruction of the AFL, the football media and all the wrongs of this wonderful game. Of course, at the end of it all, the MFC and it supporters survive.

Not my intention as a dead alcoholic writer, and I would have preferred it to be one of the original veterans of this esoteric and simply mad thread. I started reading this thread almost in a voyeuristic way and always curious about its sudden change in direction and subject matter. It was like picking up a book of short stories in which imagination and entertainment was paramount. However, unlike some i decided to take part because I wanted to join the orgy. Very rarely have I failed to be entertained. However, I understand that it is not to everyone's taste, particularly for those whose interest is strangely on football matters and the MFC.

the posters on this thread never disappoint.

Your posts normally suggest that you are an intelligent, thoughtful, and personable chap. Have you taken leave of your senses? French is derived from Roman times and Latin as you know, similar to other languages such as Spanish and Italian. French is the language of love good man. It is also the language of diplomacy, science, literature and philosophy. Peasants do not speak French. They speak dialect or indeed speak in few words. Similar to the peasants here particularly those that gather in tribes to watch the Tigers and the Magpies or in SA, Port Adelaide. We also have a few here on Demonland, but who will not be named as we know who they are. Also I value my neck given the importance of the mind body connection. Although, I have to say there are a lot of headless people in these illiterate times of Kali Yuga. For those wanting to find out about Kali Yuga consult Google. The French along with the Indians know all about Kali Yuga. However, I am getting distracted from the main point of my post. I will be reporting your outrageous and frankly obscene comments to the Academie Francaise. I hope you are not planning a trip to France anytime soon. If I was planning to make love to a beautiful woman, I would want her to whisper sweet nothings in French. Remember Francois Hardy "only you can do it". Yes I know that is English. But lost in translation of course, for the French words are beautiful....que vous pouvez le faire...... and the grunts even better! Knee trembling stuff Moon. I suggest you go to Alliance Francaise and then we can converse in French just to raise the tone of posts on this site.

Understand completely, so is my beloved current wife. Surprisingly, she is someone of beauty, intelligence, virtue and morals, unless of course the Pie's are playing and her normal self evaporates and she transforms into a rabid one eyed Pie.

And I have always considered you to be a person of utmost decency and consideration OD. As far as footy picks, you can go for careful analytical consideration, hunch or plain guesswork. I go for the latter plus a dash of bitters (hope). That being the case I go for the Dees in a close one. If i go for careful analytical consideration, I see our glaring weaknesses helpfully pointed out by many demonlanders and i start to get very nervous. So I guess you can say heart over head which is probably appropriate because footy is all about passion. Have a great trip to SEA with Mrs O. I never asked but is she a Demon?

Earl, given the logistical, political, and terrorist problems, let alone the lack of replenishment and entertainment along the way, I fear that even your resourcefulness will be fully tested. I assume that you have contacts on all sides including friends amongst the hill and desert tribes. My main concern is that there are potential enemies on all sides including coalition forces. I assume that our own intelligence forces are monitoring this thread and will have tipped off other agencies including the CIA. I strongly recommend that your default position is a tour of Spain. I am sure that you will have no trouble filling spots on a tour of libidiness Spain. Of course no wives or girlfriends allowed which unfortunately might mean that Old Dee will miss given the strict rule of Mrs OD.

A point of explanation on hijabs. I love them and see them as important from a religious and most importantly cultural viewpoint. However, one has to be a little careful in ones behaviour. As a young man, I was almost shot in Turkey when I made a pass at a woman only to realise that I had mistaken the mother for the daughter. Neither mother or daughter were impressed, even less so the angry Turk that happened to be the husband and father.

Wow Earl I am figuratively blown away. However, I think I may be literally blown away if I joined this tour. I suspect that travel insurance may be a problem unless you have already sown this up with some shady character in the back streets of Cairo or Damascus. However, if I was to perish from an incendiary device along the way, I would like to think that my first three wives would receive some meager pay out for putting up with me over the years, Also, part of my reason for suggesting Spain was that it seemed to satisfy the the indulgent and sense gratifying appetites of Demonlanders that inhabit this thread. Lets face it Earl, end of season footy trips are really about "wine, women, and song," And to live long enough to be able to talk about the scandals and the appalling behaviour on the trip with your mates when you return home. Those that would want to join an end of season tour of any country are not going in order to write their memoirs or to finalize their last will and testament. I also don't think that Australian Embassy staff or Foreign Affairs would be impressed if we had to try and negotiate a release for Bitters, Biff or Picket from the hands of a terrorist or even a Midnight Express type jail in Turkey. In the middle east at the moment, the sense gratifying appetites of the people I have grown to love and hate on this thread may be difficult to satisfy. Bootlegged liquor, ISIS and hijabs don't have quite the same appeal as Sangria, Tio Pepe, Tempranillo, bull fights, tapas, flamenco and lithe dark haired olive skinned senoritas who love white skinned over weight middle age men from the New World. I think that 2016 is not 1987 and that your suggested tour is best left in your memory. I do want to enjoy the remaining years of my life Earl, and this means indulging in a little bit of sense gratification, some quiet reflection and writing on life's hidden meanings. One of which is living long enough to see my old Demons (an integral part of my DNA and soul) rise like Lazurus up the broken and crooked ladder known as the AFL. Earl, you are a man of great ideas, enterprise and generosity, however, I respectively suggest that your latest suggestion is not one of your better ideas. I am sure that like Milo Minderbinder you can come up with something that better satisfies the appetites of Demonlanders (Bitters appetites excluded).

An end of season trip ? My experience of tour groups has not been a positive one picket, mainly because of different interests and expectations. I suspect Biff and Bitters and even your good self may have some differences that would make group travel a little testing. Also, I like to rise early in the morning so that in itself may be a problem in stirring the others from their beds or bordellos. Bitters specific peccadilloes would worry me a little. Spanish jails are not places I would recommend. Perhaps Earl may be interested in putting together a tour itinerary using his contacts to get the best deals. There are some wonderful old castles with dungeons that may appeal to some members of the party. Earl may also be useful in acquiring cheap licquor. I am happy to act as a forward scout and that way l may be able to leave names and addresses of the more sociable senoritas and indeed those who would be sufficiently robust in the clinches for Bitters and Biff. As a forward scout it may be difficult for me to actually meet up with the touring party but that may be an advantage when the Senoritas discover that i have moved on. This would then allow members of the group to fill the void left by my rapid departure. Anyway, it's an interesting proposition as a cultural experience. Let's see what Earl and other members of the tour party think. One has to be careful not to upset other Demonlanders who may also want a guernsey.

Biff you should go. The senoritas and their lithe and fluid bodies are something to behold. However, they can be very demanding and temperamental so moving from place to place is an advantage. No need to learn the language only the language of love.

I trust that the rest of the body is in working order OD! Holidays can quicken the blood flow.

Good to hear, I assume you are off to the old world old dee. If so, I recommend the bullfighting in Espana. Madrid, Seville or Pamplona are all recommended.

I hope you are right although my EFC acquaintances were all very happy to see him go and were non to complimentary about his skills (the turnover King) or football brains (lack thereof).

Given that you have not been able to get malt for about 40 years OD hardly surprising that you would be regarded with incredulity. The thought of having a banana milkshake with malt and lashings of ice cream has me salivating but not in a lewd manner a la Bitters.

No forgiveness for Melksham or the other cheaters. They had their chance but they fell at every hurdle or opportunity to come clean.

Anyway OD I am enjoying your Renaissance as a loyal enthusiastic and optimistic supporter along with all the other folk on Demonland. I think the second coming is getting closer or as MLK once said "I had a dream" and the dream is becoming a real possibility. We can see the light!

My gosh Old Dee you really have turned the corner.

Invented well before the Greeks, as written in the Veda's 5000 years ago and graphically depicted in many parts of what we now call India.